GROCERYWORKS SHAREHOLDERS SEEK DAMAGES FROM SAFEWAY

DALLAS -- Safeway, Pleasanton, Calif., is being sued by minority shareholders of GroceryWorks.com here, the on-line grocery delivery company in which the retail chain owns the controlling interest.The petition, filed in U.S. District Court here, charges Safeway and its two top executives -- Steve Burd, chairman and chief executive officer, and Vasant M. Prabhu, executive vice president and chief financial

DALLAS -- Safeway, Pleasanton, Calif., is being sued by minority shareholders of GroceryWorks.com here, the on-line grocery delivery company in which the retail chain owns the controlling interest.

The petition, filed in U.S. District Court here, charges Safeway and its two top executives -- Steve Burd, chairman and chief executive officer, and Vasant M. Prabhu, executive vice president and chief financial officer -- with conspiring to steal the dot-com company's intellectual property